Item: TaxJar
Rating: 8
Author: Mark Vaughn

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use TaxJar to estimate taxes needed to be collected for selling our software subscriptions to users of different states. Further it helped accounting figure out what taxes were owed to what states. It was mainly implemented with an SDK making calls to an API, however TaxJaar was working on seamless stripe integration.

Pros and Cons

estimate taxes via zip code
estimate taxes via full address
generate reports of taxes owed to states
straight forward API

stripe integration needs improvement
taxes are based off of USPS data rather than IRS data

Return on Investment

helped us recover lots of money from high tax states

Key Insights

Do you think TaxJar delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with TaxJar's feature set?

Yes

Did TaxJar live up to sales and marketing promises?

Did implementation of TaxJar go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy TaxJar again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Stripe, Mailchimp, Datadog

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are selling digital or physical products to people all across the states, you will owe taxes to those states. Being able to estimate on the fly and charging the consumer will be better for the bottom line of the business. Further the reports on what those numbers are at the end of the year are invaluable.

Solid foundation, lots of potential

Overall Satisfaction with TaxJar